New theme: Film

[rosco_pc]

Posted a new them for the gigabeat: Film

It is inspired by a Sansa theme (which I can not seem to find anymore), which I re-created from memory. It support 200x200 album art (just LOVE the jpeg and resize support).

The top bar was meant to be used for some additional information, but I ran out of view ports (the volume & battery indicators use 10 view ports each)

Hope you like it

[edited: fixed some grammar errors, can not seem to write decent english anymore  ]

[Llorean]

Why do you need more than one viewport for each of the two indicators you've said use ten? I haven't looked at your source, but judging from the picture there's no practical reason to need so many.

[rosco_pc]

Initially I wanted to use bitmap strips, but since the indicators are vertical that meant that I needed 2 huge bmp files of 20X2000 approximately to cover all the possibilities. Together with the already big background file that gave me a bitmap buffer error. So I came up with the "one viewport per picture" idea as a solution. What I don't like about it is the large amount of conditional statements I needed, but is seems to work flawlessly on the gigabeat.

Now that I think about it a bit more I might try with one viewpport per indicator and just preload the same picture at different positions within that viewport. 

[pixelma]

Just had a quick look at the zip and it looks to me that the border.bmp is most likely the biggest waster of the bitmap buffer (the backdrop doesn't count as it uses the separate backdrop buffer not the WPS one) and contains a lot of "useless" area.

If I see correctly, you should be able to regain lots of space and get the same look if you just use the corner bits of it:
- four 6x6 pixels wide graphics are 4 x few bytes instead of
- one 200x200 pixels wide bitmap which is many many bytes.

Maybe that'll already free up enough for the strips?

Oh, and almost forgot: I think the theme looks nice and has an interesting idea behind.

[rosco_pc]

Pixelma: Thanks for the advise. I did not know that the backdrop used a different buffer, so automatically assumed that that was the problem.

I've now got it working with just one viewport per indicator and bitmaps

If I want the theme removed from the theme site (so I can re-upload it), who should I ask?

[AlexP]

I can remove it for you.  Edit:  done.

[rosco_pc]

AlexP: Thanks

I've re-uploaded the theme now